406, Lot: 766. Estimate $75. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Claudius II Gothicus. AD 268-270. Antoninianus (21mm, 4.18 g, 6h). Cyzicus mint. 3rd emission, Phase 1, circa mid-late AD 269. Radiate bust right, slight drapery / VICTORIAE GOTHIC, trophy with bound captives at base; –/–//[S]PQR. Normanby –; RIC V –; RIC Online 929 (this coin). Near EF, silvering. Extremely rare and possibly unique without the usual officina marking on obverse.

From the Finn Johannessen Collection, purchased from Carlos Navarrete Extremera, 22 July 2006.